Category Archives: Space

Space Shuttle Discovery Mounted Atop Jumbo Jet for Ride to Smithsonian

By doris | Published: April 16, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter’s delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (April 17), weather permitting. Discovery’s mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA’s [...]

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Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah

By doris | Published: December 14, 2011

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Thousands of birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she’s ever seen. Crews went to work cleaning up the dead birds and rescuing [...]

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At 84, one man is still the ‘guardian angel’ of Route 66

By doris | Published: May 29, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com SELIGMAN, Ariz. — Just after lunchtime in a town that is a monument to yesteryear, an old man is cruising down Route 66 using an eight-speed bicycle. He is tidily dressed in khaki slacks, a navy polo and a baseball cap that protects a mostly threadbare crown, save for a few [...]

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Lost postcard reunites two friends after 24 years

By doris | Published: April 22, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Joanna Reyes was living in uptown Manhattan in February when she came upon a postcard tucked into a pile of junk mail. “My dear friend. The thought of you inspired me to write,” the note, in flowing cursive, opened. “Dear, how are you doing? The countryside is looking like spring, the [...]

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Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years

By doris | Published: March 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — If the moon looks a little bit bigger and brighter this weekend, there’s a reason for that. It is. Saturday’s full moon will be a super “perigee moon” — the biggest in almost 20 years. This celestial event is far rarer than the famed blue moon, which happens once [...]

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World’s first commercial spacecraft completes manned flight

By doris | Published: October 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A pair of pilots flew the world’s first manned commercial spacecraft over California’s Mojave Desert on Sunday, though they were the only ones aboard. The mission was a test flight for Richard Branson’s dream of affordable space travel and put his vision a step closer to reality, he said [...]

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Scientists discover monster star

By doris | Published: July 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Imagine a star so luminous that it would burn the Earth up if it were anywhere near, a star that outshines the sun as much as the sun outshines the moon. A monster even in the abyss of space. The star is not some scientist’s celestial dream. Astronomers used [...]

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Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012

By doris | Published: November 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Barcelona – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will [...]

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NASA finally sees plume from moon impact

By doris | Published: October 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA scientists have finally seen in their data a debris plume created by the impact of a moon probe last week. The faint plume was seen in the data from the engineered crash one week after the impact of the LCROSS probe. Scientists are hoping that analysis of the plume will [...]

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Astronomy fans left disappointed after much-touted lunar impact

By doris | Published: October 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “We saw nothing,” he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday’s NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). NASA had encouraged everyone [...]

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Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn

By doris | Published: October 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk of it starts about 3.7 million miles (6 million km) away from the planet and extends outward another 7.4 million miles (12 million km). Its diameter is equivalent to 300 Saturns lined up side to side. [...]

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Telescope witnesses Milky Way starbirth

By doris | Published: October 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The recently launched Herschel Space Telescope has just returned glowing pictures of our own Milky Way galaxy in infrared light. The European Space Agency mission (with contributions from NASA) lifted off in May on a quest to observe the universe in long-wavelength infrared light. The telescope used two instruments simultaneously to [...]

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Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth

By doris | Published: September 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com His latest concept — to launch a camera into near-space using a weather balloon, a cell phone, hand warmers and a drink cooler — fell flat when he sent out an e-mail message to dozens of his classmates, asking for help. Unfazed, Yeh managed to find one friend willing to chip [...]

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South Korea sends first rocket into space

By doris | Published: August 25, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com GOHEUNG, South Korea – South Korea’s first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. The launch of the two-stage Naro rocket could boost the country’s space ambition but the North warned [...]

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Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang

By doris | Published: August 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It may not be possible to travel back in time, but seeing stars and galaxies as they looked millions or even billions of years ago is no problem thanks to telescopes, the closest thing we have to time machines. Now, astronomers are holding their breath to see what they’ll [...]

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Buzz Aldrin to accept NASA’s Emmy award

By doris | Published: August 19, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is taking a trip to the Emmys. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that Aldrin, part of the 1969 moon mission, will accept the Philo T. Farnsworth Award on NASA’s behalf at the Emmy engineering awards on Saturday. The award, [...]

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